DOS ain't dead - Not a bootable disk error

Columbo

30.05.2020, 21:06

Not a bootable disk error (Users)

I have a drive formatted FAT32 and I wanted to install MS-DOS 6.22 on it. I have some old floppies from a number of years ago but when I try to install MS-DOS from the floppies I get a "This is not a bootable disk" error. I figured that maybe it was because they were old floppy disks and was not readable so I downloaded a copy of MS-DOS 6.22 from an abandonware site, decompressed the img files onto 3 disks and tried to install from them but got the same error. Can anyone suggest why I am getting this error? I would assume that the first floppy disk img file would be bootable.

Thanks

ecm

Düsseldorf, Germany,
30.05.2020, 21:49

@ Columbo

Not a bootable disk error

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> I have a drive formatted FAT32 and I wanted to install MS-DOS 6.22 on it.

Not really related to your problem but: MS-DOS version 6.xx doesn't support FAT32, not even if you manage to boot it. FAT32 is supported by MS-DOS version 7.10 level kernels.

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glennmcc

North Jackson, Ohio (USA),
31.05.2020, 04:26

@ ecm

Not a bootable disk error

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> > I have a drive formatted FAT32 and I wanted to install MS-DOS 6.22 on
> it.
>
> Not really related to your problem but: MS-DOS version 6.xx doesn't support
> FAT32, not even if you manage to boot it. FAT32 is supported by MS-DOS
> version 7.10 level kernels.

Quite correct....
for MS-DOS v6.22, you'll need to format that HDD partition as FAT16

And of-course, no larger than... 2,147,483,647 bytes (2 GiB – 1)

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DosWorld

31.05.2020, 15:27

@ glennmcc

Not a bootable disk error

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> > MS-DOS version 6.xx doesn't support FAT32
> Quite correct....
> for MS-DOS v6.22, you'll need to format that HDD partition as FAT16

+100500

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